If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
GASTON BACHELARDMan is an imagining being.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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Nobody knows that in reading we are re-living our temptations to be a poet. All readers who have a certain passion for reading, nurture and repress, through reading, the desire to become a writer.
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Our house is our corner of the world.
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The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
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We understand nature by resisting it.
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A book is a human fact; a great book like Seraphita gathers together numerous psychological elements. These elements become coherent through a sort of psychological beauty. It does the reader a service.
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For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.
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Our whole childhood remains to be reimagined. In reimagining it, we have the possibility of recovering it in the very life of our reveries as a solitary child.
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The words of the world want to make sentences.
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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child’s world and thus a world event.
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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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One must live to build one’s house, and not build one’s house to live in.
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At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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